I used to never attune any other aetherite crystals becaus i thought it would change my home location and the next time i used "return" i would return to that crystal. When i finally decided to change my home location it popped up "teleport unlock", i almost threw myself out the window.
oh the lingo for me for sure. I thought "ERP" meant "extreme raiding party" and when I hit 50 and unlocked my first extreme primal I wandered around Limsa and Uldah shouting "extreme primals look spicy and fun, looking for ERP group" Once someone asked me if I needed help and corrected me I was so embarrassed I didn't log on for a week.
Oh god, I just got second hand embarrassment reading this. Something similar happened to me with this. How I coped, instead of not logging in, I just started fake conversations that not having shield increased your attack speed.
Had some who actually wanted to erp during the castrum run in my group last week. First time I wasn't happy about some spending their time chatting during those endless cutscenes
after fates would end, I used to sit there healing EVERYONE because i thought some kind of attack happened to make them ALL drop to like no HP..... they were just all really high levelled and resetting their stats xD I just wanted to be a good white mage lol
I spent 20mins trying to figure out why I couldn’t raise a “dead player” out in the Shroud only to realize they were playing dead…I am sure they were amused lolol
It took me 4 or 5 dungeons to realize that "o/" was people waving to me/my party. I thought people were just constantly mistyping some kind of chat command at the beginning of dungeons . This is my first mmo ever, and I'd never seen that before in other games
Been using o/ since 1998 in games. It used to be more of a salute, but now it's more like a hello wave. It's not specific to mmo's or ff at all, it's most common in FPS games.
as a healer main, that new healer sightseeing while their group was dying was one of the best comments, it's even funnier since sometimes people switch to a healer job to get a fast queue then forget that they're the healer lmao
The very first time I ran content as a healer (after maxing every DPS job) I remember looking at the party‘s health bars and thinking „that’s interesting they’re loosing health…oh Shit that’s my job!“
Lmfao sch was my main but I decided to level dps for a couple of weeks, and when I queued for a dungeon as a sch for the first time in a while I totally forgot I was supposed to heal and my party died while I was spamming Art of War
I started playing about a month ago. The most confusing thing to me is that Minfilia specifically makes this big show of giving you a phone then insists on you coming all the way back to see her to tell her every inconsequential detail. Either she’s the ultimate boomer or she’s wicked thirsty for the protagonists.
I think the justification is that the link shell could get intercepted. But hey you've got the auto teleport letter token things. Those are a godsend and weren't always a thing. Used to be way more tedious to return to the waking sands.
I remember starting off and shaking my head at characters who had no clothing. Only to later try a new class and have absolutely no equip-able gear. I felt so embarrassed running around naked trying to get some form of low level clothing.
Ya know to be fair especially around LL it could easily be either. I'm at the point if someone's nude I just keep doing what i'm doing. It's none of my business either way and I feel like most people don't care anyway. There's always gonna be one that does it just cause they can.
Don't be embarrassed, there's so many weird players, it's not that strange to see someone run around naked. In one of the crystal tower raids, my friend and I took all our clothes off, the rest of the DPS in out party followed suit. Be naked and proud my friend! :D
I'm also new, buddy and I had a good laugh the other day. I was surprised when I found out Dragoon wasn't an actual tank. I thought "Floor Tank" was just a mobile tank. Like a bball player running the floor.
To be fair looking at Dragoon you'd think it was the 'evasion tank', focused on completely avoiding damage vs just toughing it out that Warrior/Paldain/Dark Knight are...but nope it's DPS!
Dragoons are Glass Cannons, having been one since day 1 you do have to learn to dodge and have good reaction time to mechanics especially late game where single mechanics can flatout kill you in One-shot. The life of a DRG is not an easy one.
I relate to that Weaver one so much, when I first started playing I picked up Goldsmithing and because it gave me abilities and a hammer i assumed I had to kill things outside Uldah. I genuinely thought it was some sort of test like if i couldn't kill bee's with my hammer then I wasn't worthy of crafting. I was mistaken.
I’m just imagining your character saying, “I’m going to farm some mushrooms today.” While some mushroom is saying, “ I’m going to farm some botanists today.”
So far, knock on wood, I haven't had this happen *yet* in FFXIV, but I did stumble in last minute into a Timewalking dungeon on my Boomie, fishing pole in hand, did nearly half the dungeon before someone pointed it out. (I introduced my wife to WOW, and had joked that it happens eventually to most of us at one time or another.) They thankfully didn't get too angry and were laughing, but I apologized profusely, and they could tell I was sincere-- I spent the last boss kiting and rooting adds solo to "make up" for it. It was hilarious! I rarely did dungeons and such in WOW because of how toxic it was there-- I'd group occasionally for my wife-- and decided I'd had enough of WOW and Blizzard after 15+ years. I decided to become another of the "WOW Refugees"... and brought my wife with me. She's enjoying it too now! I'm waiting for my next amusing mishap-- I KNOW it's coming! :D
Blue AoE's being friendly. I just semi panicked and avoided them by habit without realizing they were friendly effects. Also the unlock quests. A lot of features really are just in the middle of nowhere.
@@Luna_Kirisame Thanks. The community is awesome in ff14. I had more interaction in one LFR dungeon than in 3 months in WoW. Also as weeb i feel the community is closer to my heart.
Can I just say as a WoW Refugee you have been singlehandedly the most helpful TH-camr for starting FF XIV. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into this content, really easy to watch and super helpful all the way through. I've been watching your videos for about a week and today I subscribed. Thanks for everything!
I haven't even started yet, and I was already confused at *buying* the game, I didn't know about the "free until level 60 trial" and looking at everything honestly gives me anxiety.. I hope when I actually start playing things will clear up!
@@TairaEldritch You will be ok. I think the best thing about FFXIV is you don't need to understand everything. Just have fun, play how you want and take in new systems as you see fit.
@@TairaEldritch stick with the main story quest friend! You will not need to do all of the side quests to level. The only other quests aside from that you should focus on for now are your job quests, and any quests with a blue bubble with a + sign indicating its unlocking content! Hopefully that'll provide some direction for you and welcome aboard :)
I did literally everything backwards or wrong when I started about 1 1/2 months ago. 1. I leveled my first class Arcanist to lvl 29 before even realizing I was missing abilities and started doing my class quests. 2. Took me until my lvl 25 arc class quest to realize that I needed to do my main quest line stuff too. Yes I lvld to 29 without doing almost any main quests past lvl 12 I think. 3. Did about 20 hours worth of sidequests and levequests. Didn't realize until maybe the 4th or 5th time doing the same quests that leves are repeatable. 4. Changed classes often and had about 8 different classes going at the same time. 5. Took stuff off my HUD that helped me lvl sync so I couldnt do most fates I ran across for about 30 hours of gameplay. 6. Still to this point have very little idea of how to manage glamours. 7. Wing 99% of boss fights because even though I say its my 1st time most groups just dont explain things or already engaging the boss 8. Cant buy retainers, use the marketboard, get hunt drops, do any kind of pvp, cant trade, create a party, use any /tell say yell commands 9. Didnt understand how to extract materia and didn't know how to manage old gear or spirit bound items. Because everything was done out of order I missed out on 40+ hours of getting fate xp and seals because I also took forever to join a grand company because that is a part of the main quest. I also unlocked most if not all of the duty finder stuff WAAAAYYYYY after I had already out lvld it. If it wasn't for syncing lvls I would completely missed out on tons of shit and not even knew about it.
@@Melancholy_Scholar i just started focusing on crafting/gathering. Now I have tabs open in my browser, getting white scrips, collectables, etc, just after 3 weeks of really focusing on them.
The one about the "blue chair/lamp" analogy hits home. Everytime I would take a break and come back to the game I would end up spending my tomes on the wrong gear (lower ilvl) because the vendor/currency system is so incredibly and seemingly unnecessarily convoluted.
After a couple expansions you get used to it. It is convoluted, but if there is an up side it's that they've kept the same basic pattern from expansion to expansion.
I just reached idyllshire, and clicked on the vendors out of curiosity. 3+ sets of gear with different ilevels but all bought with tomestones of poetics (maybe this is a leftover from when it was new, and they took different kinds of currency back then?), 50 different "reagents" and miscellaney that have no obvious use that all require different currencies whose origins aren't explained, mounts that apparently require running extreme trials 100 times each... This is not good design.
@@Corrodias It makes more sense when all that stuff is "current content" but when they just leave it as is afterwards for future expansions it makes things confusing for new players imo.
@@Corrodias Poetics is the universal one, current gear requires tomestones with unique names like Goetia or Phantasmagoria. When a new patch drops, they retire the newer tomestones and allow you to buy those items with Poetics.
8:44 I’m guilty of this. I started as a Thaumaturge and when I unlocked Fire 2 I stopped using Fire 1, and same with my other spells. Later when I looked for a guide on my rotation I learned they were meant for different purposes and had different potencies.
Since FF14 was my first MMO, I’m actually kinda surprised that I can’t remember anything that really confused me about it. Besides navigating Haukke Manor. I *STILL* can’t navigate it without someone leading the way, so I’m always scared to tank it lol
Yeah, Haukke Manor was a complete mess for me. I got lost so many times and missed the teleport. Since I was the healer, the party had to slow down and basically handhold me to the end so they could finish without wiping at the final boss.
This. I picked up DRK (my first Tank) yesterday, and que'd for Haukke. I was completely lost. All I remembered was "go left at the start" Had to let the Bard guide me after that
I was near the end of the scions moving their base when I realized that a: those vouchers will teleport you to the scions base and b: there was a fast travel system. I was whole-ass taking boats and porters from place to place. Its a good way to learn the areas but holy shit was it tedious
I never see the fucking vouchers until I cleaned my inventory after finishing ARR. I was so pissed cuz I always teleported to the nearest aetheryte and ran to scions base lmfao
@@finalfantasy50 it has been a rewarding for a lot of story missions. I kept getting them but not really looking at them til I was cleaning up my chocobo saddlebag. Its called vesper bay aetheryte ticket. Its a white envelope w a red seal and if you're bag is sorted it'd be after food, with your other tickets/teleport vouchers
@@lishuss To be fair, in earlier days those didn't even exist, I remember playing before they were brought in, would have to teleport to Horizon and walk/ride from there.
As odd as it sounds, the thing that confused me the most (I started October 2020) was the community. It’s so much more nice and welcoming than any other community I’ve been in. I’m so used to other games where if you don’t go into the raid with 100% knowledge and wipe more than once then you’ll get kicked. It was such a stark contrast to anything I’ve ever experienced before.
You'll run into jerks on occasion like everywhere, but, yes, as a whole, the FF community is so nice. ^^ And if they're not? You can definitely say something about it. The devs don't play around with bullies.
The whole 'switching jobs and being naked' thing hits home. :') I would switch to a new job or a profession and end up naked and be like ".....OHSHIT I HOPE NO ONE SEES ME AHHHHH"
This is why I always carry my level 1 racial gear. They provide no protection, but they're the universal language for "I just switched to this job, what's going on. My bars have switched, the lodestone button came back AGAIN and this is the only thing I have on me not to be butt-naked."
I run off to hide in a corner or something (or up on top of a tower behind a wall in regions I can fly in) before I switch to a new job precisely because I'm butt naked XD
I started playing almost exactly a month ago - luckily I came from LotRO with a lot of experience in other mmos too so that made things easier. That said the thing that caught me off guard the most was ID key in Prae. Literally all game thus far key item drops in dungeons are shared and I had no idea where my raid went. Thank god for teleport to combat
The most confusing thing for me (I finally downloaded the free trial woo!!) for me was the whole tank stance and rotation of abilities worked. I know what aggro is - but 5 commendations later, I think I'm in love with tanking!
I didn't do the magitek registration in Prae my first time, I was a straggler and only noticed everyone getting onto the lift Got to the magitek armor, UH??? Had to backtrack, figure out what to do, and then try to catch up to my party I'm just glad no one yelled at me, since I was a healer o~o''
i made the same mistake, healer too ='D ... to be fair, it should be an different icon for individual interaction and group interaction. I tough if one used it all would have it =').
I did the same thing as a healer on my first run. I was stressing and my mate wouldn't stop laughing. No one cares though because everyone speedruns prae and the healer isn't needed for that section anyways. I mean I don't think you even need a healer to beat up Nero xD.
literally everyone I know made the same mistake with the one exception being a person that started in the ARR era. What can I say prae runs are fast and its a faceroll but no worries if someone gets left behind no pressure.
Did the same thing and just learned last week. I didn't know in my first Prae run that we don't fight the mobs and run right past, so when someone whacked a guy I started casting my AOE's and attracted EVERYBODY to me which meant I couldn't access the first teleport since I was in combat, and everybody left me. Well then of course I just had to sit and wait until they got to Nero for the game to catch me up. So, the first time I got to that room everyone was so swarmed I couldn't see the key validation. I just figured they were orbit a door or something and I didn't need to do anything but wait. I then followed them to the elevator and had to double back to access the armor. I run Prae just fine now and keep up with no issues!
I was so upset i had no mounts at low level, that i literally did shiva Ex synced (using the queue feature that took like an hour) and won Boreas the horse mount before I figured out how to unlock the chocobo mount with the GC...
Sad thing is I have so many account wide bonuses that I can start with like 5 mounts. And guessing that pretty much everyone left that EX trial right at the start.
for sure XIV, as with a lot MMOs, requires learning so much lingo that it becomes a language of its own. Some things I used to be confused about: -How chat worked. I would end up talking to people on the wrong channels. -Moving stuff around in the UI (This is mainly because I am a ps4 player and dragging stuff around is a bit different) -The looting system. Greed, need, pass. -Procs and combos. Reading the tooltips made me realize i had been playing bard and white mage wrong. -The mini cactpot. Used to think I just had to get the larger numbers and was confused when the payout didn't match up. Until i read the instructions. -Main city layouts. You get accustomed to em, but i used to get very lost, especially in Limsa. -Levemetes. Had no idea how to initiate them once I accepted one. -Targeting. Again, this is more a console player problem, but had a hard time switching between friend and foe targets. PSA, up and down is friend, left and right is foes -Praetorium. Had the same issue where I didn't know what to do, so when everyone disappeared in the magitek armor section, i was so confused since i didn't get a key. Probably one big thing that I didn't know was that skills were locked to their individual jobs. I started my journey as a white mage, so when i switched over to bard, I thought I would be able to keep all the healing and magicks I got as a white mage, but nope. You start from 0 with totally different moves. I've been playing a year (finally reached shadowbringers) but there's still plenty to learn. Like leveling and dyeing your chocobo. Still have no idea how to do that lol.
I remember the game telling me about auto-attacks, but not understanding that auto-attacks happen regardless of if I'm actively using skills or not, so I would use an attack and wait for my guy to swing his sword before using another skill
@@sharatraj2736 actually there is! There is a unicorn mount you can get at lv 30 (i think) where you can only do the quest if youre a conjurer and not a white mage.
I've only been playing ffxiv for about a week so a lot of these I definitely relate to (especially that glamour one oof), and I'm just so grateful that I have friends who have been playing it much longer than me and thus take the time to teach me these things specifically sometimes. It's not my first MMO, and definitely not my first RPG, so the learning curve isn't MASSIVE but there's still stuff I don't get and because I'm ADHD and autistic it can be hard for my brain to process new info if it's not phrased certain ways. New games are intimidating but the more I'm learning about how shit works, the less scary other players are ^-^
I'll admit, as someone who has played other MMO's it took me a while to figure out that aoes hit based on time of cast completion rather than the effect going off. I spent a lot of the early days blaming lag, thinking I'd gotten out of the effect in time.
Eh. To be fair, the weird lag the game has is an issue. You can be outsode of an AoE when the cast timer finishes and still get hit if you were in it even 1 second before. It's the most obnoxious shit that needs fixing.
When I first started out crafting I treated it like every other MMO I had played prior: Got my blacksmith job, and just proceeded to craft just ingots as the way to grind and stock up on materials to create gear for my character at the same time, did not even craft the ingots through fast synthesis, because that gave me less exp... Took me a bit to discover you get a lot more exp when you craft things you never crafted before. Cherry on top: I was a Lancer. I thought crafting Spears was a blacksmith job, but it turned out to be carpenters instead... oof...
The "Features unlocked by quests" is my pitfall. I try my best to stay on top of it but I unlock my second retainer by chance, maybe 2 months after the time I should've unlocked it! As a gatherer I was extremely relieved.
I’m about to start FFXIV as my very first MMO after building my very first PC… I’m incredibly intimidated but your videos have made this a little bit easier
Yall are missing the most confusing thing! where does our money go when we teleport!? dose Hydalin take it? is she just floating above a ever growing pile of gold? what do you need the gill for crystal mama!?
An NPC near Ul'Dah's Aetheryte actually explains this I think. Something about repaying a debt for reconstruction after bahamut messed everything up or something idr.
@@TormentedAngel8 Ive talked to Nenebaru now and the interest on that debt must be insane. screw the primals are the empire this is the true evil in this world. Rise up comrades of Eorzia. The Aetheryte bourgeoisie must be stop. the only thing you have to loss are your chains!
I was so confused by how the gathering game changed at 50. It went from just go hit rocks to the collectable thing... steep learning curve on that one.
When I started to play SMN in 5.2 because at the time I wasn’t used to having my hot bars filled with abilities and learning that the SMN rotation was 2 minutes long
One of my secondary runs through WoD I was alliance C and was on chain duty for Cerberus. I thought I would be a super smart player and get ahead of the mechanic and stood over by the chain waiting for it to become interactable. Once the mechainc happened I ran the chain over to Fluffy and just stood there... like an idiot... thinking that I had to stand there with the chain to hold him in place. The chain disappeared from my hands with about 3 seconds left and I could feel the horrified gaze of my party mates as they frantically tried to sprint back to the wall to grab a new chain. We died horrible deaths and it was a great time!
Oh man I think most everyone forgets that id card in Prae lmao. I was so confused the first time around and was stuck in cutscenes for the rest of the dungeon
Your videos have helped me so much! Thank you~ I was so lost and your way of explaining thing has been easier for me to learn everything there is, I just started playing since last november and I still don't know a lot of thing, but I fell in love with the game!
One time near the copperbell mines entry as a lvl 62 miner, I was gathering iron ore and there's was a low level player fighting the bombs. I was mining a node when I saw the aoe marker appear under me and ignored it since I was far higher level. It was annoying having to travel back there to continue mining.
Not having chat bubbles, im still not sure why this doesnt exist, alot of the times when i see new people in the game, they dont even realise you're talking to them, or whos even talking
I have different sound notifications (accessed through Char Config/Chat/Notifications) on various chats, macros, especially important in parties and raids when instructions are given in the middle of the fight. My noob self healing first raid, boss at 2%, tank and 1 dps screaming for "healer LB 3!!!" in party chat, and me busy running around and dying....you can put a sound notification on emotes directed at you too, especially important in towns where emotes are EVERYWHERE.... lol
I just started playing 2 months ago and I got confused why people were yelling at me for not DPSing as a WHM I was like because I am the healer we don't DPS we heal. Didn't realize I was wrong until mid 40's ..... oops my bad.
I relate to too many of those lmao! It's fortunate I ended up with so many friendly allies in dungeons who basically taught me everything (tank stance, cure II, LB...). The community is so supportive! Of course, it helps to read guides but when you start, there are so many unknowns that you don't know where to look. That's also why I love that game though :)
I can relate to the first comment so much. City of Heroes was my first 3D MMO where I didn't know jumping was a thing. I had a quest to go inside a warehouse but couldn't find a ramp or stairs up this small little curb. I actually ended up sending in a ticket asking how tf I get up there and they replied, "the default keybind for jump is spacebar" 😂
Started playing a month ago, am halfway through the post-Stormblood msq and feel like I know just enough to get in trouble but not actually do things optimally for serious like the crafting /gathering systems, and job but BRD, healing above level 20, the eleven million extra logs /tasks /unlocks that you keep stumbling on. I feel like it takes forever to get my quest log to a manageable place after each major msq chain and I'm always 5-7 levels ahead of where the quests are (75 and still have about 15 msq before I hit Shadowbringers). You're guides have been really helpful, it's just hard when you want to know how to do ALL THE THINGS. RIGHT. NOW.
Before playing, just creating an account and buying/downloading the game was already confusing for my friends. Dif platforms? Steam? Non-steam? Localization?
most confusing so far: finding out midway through Stormblood that I have to go back to do some random ARR thing (ended up being the Crystal Tower storyline) because a character in it shows up in Shadowbringers? jarring as hell when I didn't even know it was a thing lol
It's impossible to understand SHB without playing through the Crystal Tower series. Nowadays you can't even finish ARR without doing it, but if you had finished ARR before SHB release, they ask you just after Stormblood
@@MiloKuroshiro oh, for sure. and I get it NOW, even though I haven't caught up to ShB yet. but in the moment, it made for a weird obligation?? that feels less like planting for an eventual payoff and more like "oh shit you're missing some key lore because some pages were stuck together, hang on, go back a few chapters". I'll live with that, but it's jarring, and that's unfortunate
@@Camsteak I'm aware. and I'm glad that new players will have a more coherent sequence of events than I did. I just hope that nothing else like this comes up because this was, again, confusing to deal with even after plunking away at this game for a year and a half
There is nothing else like that in the game, from what I understand, you just were one of the unlucky ones not up to ShB but after ARR when the change came in.
I was lucky to have friends already playing to help me out with things, but one thing that confused the Hades out of me was not understanding that I needed to keep my starter clothes for if/when I would start crafting or gathering, or a new job of any kind. I spent gil needlessly on gear I thought I could use and was perplexed when I couldn't equip it. I never did find a video or article geared towards newbies that mentions that aspect of things.
I just got my first DoL job to 60 and I've been trying to figure out the collectible and scrip system for days. It feels like week 1 of playing all over again.
2:40 on the map subject, what is even topography on FFXIV? xD I think the devs/designers never heard about it, like what is up and down, do you need to get into a cave, is it a wall or not? it sucks, you get used on how much it sucks tho
As probably been mentioned before, FFXIV doesn't really do hand-holding in player progression, we have to figure them out as we go along. I have the same problem with maps, until i realized that there is an indicator of either its up or down the said maps. in the middle of the targeted area there is a "^" or "v" ... with "^" being up, and "v" being down... I hope this'll help.
I made it all the way to Shadowbringers having no idea what the hell LB was. It's not explained at any point, you're just expected to know. There's a big fight toward the end where, as a tank, you MUST use it or your entire party WILL die. I was the main tank. I had no idea it even existed. People are telling me to LB and I'm like "I'm on keyboard!" Eventually someone explained it and we were able to finish the fight, but God I felt like a moron.
@@whatareyoudoingyouidiot342 Ooooh yeah, I remember this part, hopefully I read a guide before the fight. But yeah, as a tank, this is not a big deal if you don't know what this mechanic is (unless for this fight), but as a dps or healer it's pretty important depending on the situation, and we're not all prepared to use it.
@@nicholasoutland2396 it means Limit Break. It won't really come into play until much later in the game for you, and as a tank, you really won't need to use it very often.
@Sean Kaiserschmidt It's a mechanic that appears in later dungeons. If you set it off, something BIG happens depending on what role you play. If you're a DPS, it unleashes an attack that does massive damage. If you're a tank, it gives everyone a huge buff to defense. If you're a healer, I believe it auto-resses and heals everyone.
New player here and that has been confusing me as well. How do you travel to a large aetheryte that you have unlocked if it is not set as your bind point and is in a city in a zone outside of the main city area? If I try to do this from a small aetheryte within the city area, there is no option (small aetherytes can only be used within the city area). If I try to do this from the large aetheryte in the main city where I have set as my bind point, there still is no option to travel to outlying cities. The only option drops you off at the border to that zone. I guess they don't want you to be able to fast travel long distances (only short distances within the city area)? Edit: Doh! I finally realized that you can only travel for free within the main city area. I was thinking it was like ESO, where you have to pay to teleport to a waypoint if you are in the middle of nowhere, but it's free to teleport if you use the waypoint. I haven't been using the pay to teleport feature since the several hundred gil is kind of steep for a new player - I'm sure that cost means nothing later.
I started 14 last week and because I had time off work I was able to make it to level 40. This is my first ever MMO and I'm 35 so as you can imagine I was confused as hell by everything. My lowest point so far has been going into a dungeon, beating a miniboss and then having everybody immediately port out to go face the main boss, this was in the haunted mansion place. Everybody just disappeared! I was left standing there like 'wth did everyone just quit?' then I realised they were fighting elsewhere so I tried to run back to the beginning. Of course I was almost immediately killed and I just had to watch in the chat as people were like 'how did he die', 'where did he go?'. I had no idea that you could port to the beginning of the dungeon, and if I'm completely honest I'm still uncertain as to how it's done, and I don't want to press 'return' in case that take me back to Gridania xD Oh, I also walked off the platform when fighting Ifrit and had to watch the rest of the battle play out without me. I didn't know you could fall off! I'm still in the button mashing phase of things, but I think I'm getting there.
I had a similar problem in the mansion yesterday. After beating the miniboss we had forgotten something. The only one of us who did the whole thing before went to get it. The others and me just went to random places because we had no idea what and where we are looking for. Then all besides me teleported back. I got lost and let the whole group wait 5 minutes for the tank. They even wrote how I could teleport to the entrance. But I was confused and english isnt my first language so I wasnt sure if they really meant the button I thought :´(
The being naked part in Ul'dah got me. When I was leveling my low level tanks (pre level 50) I did not realize that the "auto equip" button was a trap. I had sooo many healers confused why I was taking soo much damage until one pointed it out to me. I then spent time re-equipping gear after a boss to the proper high defense gear. No longer did I have any problems with taking a lot of damage.
When I started my first crafter, I equipped the tool and I realized I was naked! I was so embarrassed I ran & hid frantically trying to figure out how to put my clothes back on lol
Some of the things I struggled with early on were just figuring out the basics and where all the various options were located within the various system menus. I'd never played a game where right clicking was the interaction button instead of left clicking and in other MMOs I'd played you could move by clicking on the area you wanted to move to, not so in FF14! I also played the game for about 4 hours or so before asking someone if it was possible to change your keyboard mapping because I was expecting that option to be under the System Configuration window rather than it's own separate menu lol. Truth be told even over 3 months later there's probably still features hidden within all the various menu options that I don't even know exist!
The only really confusing thing for me was when they started introducing differently coloured AOEs, specifically the one with Titan. That thing looks so much like the ground on which you're staying that most of the time I didn't even notice them being there.
"Crafting is overwhelming" for sure I felt myself. I've been playing FF on-and-off since mid-HW, but didn't get properly into crafting until The Firmament came around. Also which starter class is which role, right off the bat. The prompts you get when picking your class isn't very explicit in saying "Gladiator/Marauder is a tank" or "These classes are Damage Dealers."
oh my god the currencies 😂got to current content very recently and was So Confused as to what to do with all these different kinds of tomestones, why i get coins from some raids, what all these damn crystals and clusters do. thank god for google
I was playing the game with my SO back in Stormblood. She casually mentioned that she's going to take a look at what the retainers had brought her from the market. "Ooh, that's a lot of gil!", I was confused as I never paid any real attention to my wallet when I sold something. And I sold decent amount of stuff, a lot more than her, but she was still somehow making more money than I was. After I ran to the summoning bell, I realized I now have enough gil for several small houses.
The Retainer was a big change for me. I'm used to having a Bank in WoW, and didn't realize I would need to unlock, create, and hire a Retainer to hold my things.
When I first started playing back about halfway through HW, I chose Arcanist as my starting class. Shortly after I was level 10 I didn't like how the gear looked so I took it all off and ran around naked, using my carbuncle to attack things. Took me a bit to figure out why I couldn't get past the first level 15 MSQ fight quest. Additionally, once I unlocked SMN, one of the job battle quests was frustrating me so I left it, and gave it no thought til I was in a 60 dungeon and someone FINALLY asked why I wasn't using 😅😆
From "What the hell is a lb and why is everyone yelling at me to use it T - T" -to "What do you mean we all share the same lb bar??" Thems were the days.
Regarding the two different maps: The more detailed one (to the left) is the general map you bring up via the map key/button. The other one is a quest specific map you bring up by clicking on a quest objective, showing only the quest location with no additional info on surrounding points of interest.
3:38 i honestly was surprised playing FFXIV that elemental damage isn't something to worry about playing my Thaum/BLM. I mean it only took a quick test on each mob to confirm it wasn't, but i was surprised as not only do a ton of MMO's take elemental damage and mob types into account but I too thought this was a huge mechanic of Final Fantasy games, odd that they removed it for the MMO.
I was around level 40 when people started nicely asking, "do you know how to switch to fire?" I'd finally figured out that elemental aspect didn't matter for the type of opponent... so I stopped using fire altogether because it ate up too much MP...
In the beginning I alway wondered why I was suddenly in underwear when I switched classes. I also didn‘t know I could save the outfits of the classes for a long time.
Had something similar happen to my friend I was trying to get in the game, he played for like 2 weeks and grinded out the msq to level 47 I think, I was really busy with irl things unexpectedly so I really only played with him the first couple days but eventually he talked to me and said the msq just wasnt fun enough for him which I didn't hold against him since he gave it a good shot and grinded like crazy, one day I randomly looked at his search info and noticed he was a lv47 gladiator... I felt like shit about not telling him that he needs to do his class quests as he levels his class, I told him about what he did wrong eventually and now he's even more turned off from the game :c I just thought it was obvious since the game actually tells you when you have a new class quest to do but I definitely wish I kept a closer eye on his progress and helped him more. Now about a year later he wants to play a mmo again but he wants to play wow instead since ffxiv just didn't workout for him last time. So big time feelsbadman.
you should tell him to give it another try, i've tried a ton of mmo and FF14 is one of the most fair game i've tried, no in your face cash shop, real good story quest. And the most important : helping and kind community.
@@Mawww_MMD yeah I definitely have been trying to convince him to play again but he just has 0 interest currently, so I'm hoping when he tries wow maybe he'll be more willing to try ffxiv if wow doesn't work out for him
Poor guy, he must have got called out on in a party that is mostly the case. A tank cannot keep hate, not know dungeon, sometimes people would say things to you. The easiest starting class is dps, you just hit stuff lol
After spending 4 hours looking around zones trying to find the Aether Currents I had missed, getting frustrated cause I couldn't find them, I then found out I had a compass in my bag that once clicked on tells you where the nearest one was!! It took me 30 mins to get the rest afterwards. I did laugh out loud when I realised and also felt a bit stupid.
When I first started a month ago, I didn’t understand how hotbars and class sets worked until the middle of Stormblood, so I was manually changing things. Still have the pain I felt when I found out recommended gear was right next to the glamour plate button, let alone the embarrassment of the rest.
In case you are new - Once you get a retainer you can sell on the market. I got access at about lvl 20 of main quest... i think. not sure (i'm lvl 30 now and it was recent but I did ignore it for a little bit). but google how to get a retainer and that'll open it for you
Having everything on one character. I played City of Heroes before FFXIV. I had over 100 characters. Really. Didn't play all of them but I couldn't resist rolling up all of those concepts. I rolled 4 or 5 characters in ARR beta, then had a big sad when I realized I wouldn't play all of them. Nowadays I let myself have one alt as a little treat.
Still do NOT know when one would use this. Everyone keeps talking about it, but I've yet to get an understandable explanation, that doesn't have even more jargon trying to explain it. Reminds me of my sister who is in some kind of weird religious sect and every other word she spouts is ancient hebrew (or something) so all I hear when she talks is "Hi how are you Mxqxhwhsh and bless you, I've been doing Yxwshilloppp and going here or there"...riiiight sis..Okay. good for you. Whatever. So, my point is...limit break is used when?
@@Kayenne54 it depends on who you are and the timing usually in dungeons the melee gets priority in using it on bosses range LB is an aoe not single target like melees Tanks and healer Lbs dont afflict dmg
@@Kayenne54 yeah what he said , it’s weird cause either you can use it like on a high ranged dps or close dmg character. Say the boss is at around 5-7 percent. And LB will just one shot when it’s maxed out! So sometimes you’ll see a ranged use it begginging of a boss or say a SAM using it end of the boss to just quick finish it!
@@Kayenne54 healers LB just revives whole party which is very useful in situationals.And I forget what tanks does LOL basically dmg Will usually pop LB before a boss or right at the end :D
When I started playing I had no idea what an MMO was and had never played anything like it. I mostly played Mario and Zelda type stuff and some other single player games. So I was utterly baffled by all these terms like DoTs, tanks, DPS. I ended up Googling them so I'd know what they all meant. I think LB was probably the thing that confused me the most. It took me the longest time to fully understand that one. But the complexity of the systems in game compared to a Zelda type game were really hard for me to adjust to.
I actually had a pretty smooth new player experience. The novice network, my random party members, and IRL friends all did a good job of explaining the trickier systems. That is, until I reached the Gold Saucer and found the Mahjong table. I was completely lost, and nobody I talked to could help me. Got stuck in a "beginner" game for what felt like hours.
Moreso on the crafters, you only need to sort through the abilities once, all the crafters share the same abilities just flavored differently. You can sort them on your bar and then use the macro "/hotbar copy [orginatingclass] [hotbarnumber] [targetclass] [hotbarnumber]" replacing the brackets with the jobs and hotbars without the quotations. IE: /hotbar copy current 1 BSM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 ARM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 GSM 1 /hotbar copy current 1 CUL 1 /hotbar copy current 1 LTW 1 /hotbar copy current 1 WVR 1 /hotbar copy current 1 ALC 1 /hotbar copy current 2 BSM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 ARM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 GSM 2 /hotbar copy current 2 CUL 2 /hotbar copy current 2 LTW 2 /hotbar copy current 2 WVR 2 /hotbar copy current 2 ALC 2 This will copy the current hotbar setup to the other crafting jobs. It's extremely useful if you want to keep all the hotbars consistent and make crafting on different job easier as it will be the same location for the skills.
**Me playing FFXIV for over a year and an Astrologian for half a year** _HoTs are an aggro generator_ * _!VISIBLE CONFUSION!_ * **Me thinking of all the times where a tank sweated to get the aggro back because of me**
Haha honestly don't worry about it. The enmity multiplier on tank stance is _huge_ there's no sweat whatsoever getting aggro back. When I tank I just make it a point to run directly in front of my healer, so even if enemies try to make for them, they'll get caught up in my AOE and I'll tank aggro right back. Sometimes I miss a couple, but so long as the healer comes and stands close by when I'm done pulling, the strays will naturally get caught up in my AOEs. Just don't run away like a headless chicken when strays glom onto you. Hit sprint and glue yourself to the tank's side and things will be fine. I never mind it when healers pre-pull regen on me.
If you've been playing for a year, they weren't sweating. In fact, they might not have even noticed. Tanks now generate so much aggro it's not even relevant what the other party members do. It used to be Healers and DPS had skills for reducing their own aggro generation so they wouldn't steal mobs during burst windows, but now all of that is gone and tanks simply quickly cap out the maximum amount of aggro that the servers are able to represent. It actually causes some issues with tank swaps.
@@Poldovico But you said there were issues with tank swapping which there shouldnt be any bc of provoke and shirk. One tank per dungeon so no tank swap required.
I can relate to the "ending up naked" bit. I did the same a few years back when I tried out the game. I had read that the jobs needed abilities from different classes and I wanted to be a Bard. I read that Bard required one class at lvl 15 and another at lvl 30 to unlock. So I leveled one class to lvl 15 and then I re-rolled the other required class and none of my gear fitted anymore. I was naked. I had gotten all my gear from quest rewards and those quests were gone now so I couldn't repeat them. I was on a trail account and couldn't figure out how to gear up again, I left and haven't touch the game since.
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In my first days, before I discovered Gearsets, I used to go inside inns to change jobs so no one would see me naked when I switched my weapon.
Hahahah that is so me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still do that lol
well, i still do that to this very day :D
What is this Gearsets you speak of? Please, teach me this wisdom! *off to Google*
@@danistaab7152 hope you got it sorted out
I used to never attune any other aetherite crystals becaus i thought it would change my home location and the next time i used "return" i would return to that crystal. When i finally decided to change my home location it popped up "teleport unlock", i almost threw myself out the window.
Derp
lmfao i thought the same thing until earlier today. Level 23 so not so bad but I did walk literally everywhere until now
This. Exactly lol
OOF If i didnt know this from the first time i played pre nuke this right here wouldve been me quitting the game
Several of my friends did this.
oh the lingo for me for sure. I thought "ERP" meant "extreme raiding party" and when I hit 50 and unlocked my first extreme primal I wandered around Limsa and Uldah shouting "extreme primals look spicy and fun, looking for ERP group" Once someone asked me if I needed help and corrected me I was so embarrassed I didn't log on for a week.
Oh god, I just got second hand embarrassment reading this. Something similar happened to me with this. How I coped, instead of not logging in, I just started fake conversations that not having shield increased your attack speed.
Had some who actually wanted to erp during the castrum run in my group last week. First time I wasn't happy about some spending their time chatting during those endless cutscenes
"Paladin looking for tank & spank." :)
I had that run in with the other super successful MMORPG, World of Warcraft. But I think, FFXIV was the first time I actually tried ERP. lol
Oh god, is there a version of Goldshire/Moonglade (the main ERP hubs) in FFXIV?
after fates would end, I used to sit there healing EVERYONE because i thought some kind of attack happened to make them ALL drop to like no HP..... they were just all really high levelled and resetting their stats xD I just wanted to be a good white mage lol
WHM for wholesome.
omg same, i was so worried but that makes sense ty for clearing that up!
I still do throw regens on even though I figure out it was from unsyncing. Just bugs me that they have low health XD
My lv 80 that was teaching the game laughed while my Arcanist tried his best to heal his dark knight
This is incredibly wholesome.
I spent 20mins trying to figure out why I couldn’t raise a “dead player” out in the Shroud only to realize they were playing dead…I am sure they were amused lolol
You are not the only one to do this.
This happened to me recently. But luckily I knew that emote so I realized it quickly.
HAHAHAH i was doing fates once and ran into a healer sprout, i played dead for him and he tried to raise me too
Lol when people Play Dead in front of me I whip out my boom and start sweeping XD
@@JelisW I would have danced on them.
It took me 4 or 5 dungeons to realize that "o/" was people waving to me/my party. I thought people were just constantly mistyping some kind of chat command at the beginning of dungeons
. This is my first mmo ever, and I'd never seen that before in other games
I thought that was an indicator that the player was using that ffxiv launcher third party app.
Today I learned... 🥲
I've been wondering what that meant, Thanks :)
@@felixvelariusbos this is to relatable for me xD
Been using o/ since 1998 in games. It used to be more of a salute, but now it's more like a hello wave. It's not specific to mmo's or ff at all, it's most common in FPS games.
the "following mechanic" comment was Extremely funny
JimmyCool why are you here?
Kinda neat seeing you here buddy, how long have you been playing 14?
what. i didnt know you played FFXIV i love your videos
U r so annoying ur channel is the most awful thing u r not funny
Hello???
as a healer main, that new healer sightseeing while their group was dying was one of the best comments, it's even funnier since sometimes people switch to a healer job to get a fast queue then forget that they're the healer lmao
The very first time I ran content as a healer (after maxing every DPS job) I remember looking at the party‘s health bars and thinking „that’s interesting they’re loosing health…oh Shit that’s my job!“
So relatable, lol.
I totally see myself in this.
Lmfao sch was my main but I decided to level dps for a couple of weeks, and when I queued for a dungeon as a sch for the first time in a while I totally forgot I was supposed to heal and my party died while I was spamming Art of War
ive done it so many times but not to get a fast queue.
@@cocobunitacobuni8738 Been around since '13, and this still happens to me.
I started playing about a month ago. The most confusing thing to me is that Minfilia specifically makes this big show of giving you a phone then insists on you coming all the way back to see her to tell her every inconsequential detail. Either she’s the ultimate boomer or she’s wicked thirsty for the protagonists.
The Echo bill is expansive. She already used all her free minutes
I think the justification is that the link shell could get intercepted.
But hey you've got the auto teleport letter token things. Those are a godsend and weren't always a thing. Used to be way more tedious to return to the waking sands.
I mean, I choose to believe she's hella thirsty. Come on in, the polycule's great ;)
p r a y r e t u r n
Pray return to the Waking Sands
I remember starting off and shaking my head at characters who had no clothing. Only to later try a new class and have absolutely no equip-able gear. I felt so embarrassed running around naked trying to get some form of low level clothing.
smh
Ya know to be fair especially around LL it could easily be either. I'm at the point if someone's nude I just keep doing what i'm doing. It's none of my business either way and I feel like most people don't care anyway. There's always gonna be one that does it just cause they can.
Haha, I used to hide behind a corner when I changed over.
Don't be embarrassed, there's so many weird players, it's not that strange to see someone run around naked. In one of the crystal tower raids, my friend and I took all our clothes off, the rest of the DPS in out party followed suit. Be naked and proud my friend! :D
I love how one of the DoH guildmasters directly tells you to not come back naked hahaha. I think it's the Leatherworkers guildmaster? Or smithing.
I'm also new, buddy and I had a good laugh the other day. I was surprised when I found out Dragoon wasn't an actual tank. I thought "Floor Tank" was just a mobile tank. Like a bball player running the floor.
To be fair looking at Dragoon you'd think it was the 'evasion tank', focused on completely avoiding damage vs just toughing it out that Warrior/Paldain/Dark Knight are...but nope it's DPS!
Doesn’t help that they seem to share a lot of armors with tanks lol
Today I learnt Dragoob is DPS o,o
Dragoons are Glass Cannons, having been one since day 1 you do have to learn to dodge and have good reaction time to mechanics especially late game where single mechanics can flatout kill you in One-shot. The life of a DRG is not an easy one.
@@DeadlyAquila Like, back in the "take increased magic damage" days?
I relate to that Weaver one so much, when I first started playing I picked up Goldsmithing and because it gave me abilities and a hammer i assumed I had to kill things outside Uldah. I genuinely thought it was some sort of test like if i couldn't kill bee's with my hammer then I wasn't worthy of crafting. I was mistaken.
I am stunned and perplexed. Never did it occur to me that the No 1 I had to do to get better at molding metal with rare gems was genocide
Omg the weaver getting killed by bees. I can relate to that as a humble botanist who got trampled by evil mushrooms on my first day...
At least botanist is SUPPOSED to go outside lol
I've died a few times as a miner trying to click on a vein and accidentally clicking on the mob right next to it.
I’m just imagining your character saying, “I’m going to farm some mushrooms today.” While some mushroom is saying, “ I’m going to farm some botanists today.”
Eeeeee that was me she posted my comment
So far, knock on wood, I haven't had this happen *yet* in FFXIV, but I did stumble in last minute into a Timewalking dungeon on my Boomie, fishing pole in hand, did nearly half the dungeon before someone pointed it out. (I introduced my wife to WOW, and had joked that it happens eventually to most of us at one time or another.) They thankfully didn't get too angry and were laughing, but I apologized profusely, and they could tell I was sincere-- I spent the last boss kiting and rooting adds solo to "make up" for it. It was hilarious! I rarely did dungeons and such in WOW because of how toxic it was there-- I'd group occasionally for my wife-- and decided I'd had enough of WOW and Blizzard after 15+ years. I decided to become another of the "WOW Refugees"... and brought my wife with me. She's enjoying it too now! I'm waiting for my next amusing mishap-- I KNOW it's coming! :D
Blue AoE's being friendly. I just semi panicked and avoided them by habit without realizing they were friendly effects.
Also the unlock quests. A lot of features really are just in the middle of nowhere.
that can get you killed now too
Tbf, some dungeons/raids utilize a blue floor as high damage spots. Lots of confusion for first timers during the Keeper of the Lake dungeon boss.
Came from WoW and have been playing for only 3 days. Your channel have been a blessing for me and the timing on this video couldn't be better.
welcome to the game. we have all done our fair share of dumb things so don't feel bad if you make a mistake.
@@Luna_Kirisame Thanks. The community is awesome in ff14. I had more interaction in one LFR dungeon than in 3 months in WoW. Also as weeb i feel the community is closer to my heart.
when you get to level 15 do the Hall of the Novice it gives good guides to your Role and also good starting dungeon gear
Hello, sprout! Hope you’re having fun. Our Bun Queen is definitely the person to ask all the questions to
If you know wow, ffxiv is easy to grasp.
Can I just say as a WoW Refugee you have been singlehandedly the most helpful TH-camr for starting FF XIV. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into this content, really easy to watch and super helpful all the way through. I've been watching your videos for about a week and today I subscribed. Thanks for everything!
1,000 hours in and I'm still confused about everything.
I haven't even started yet, and I was already confused at *buying* the game, I didn't know about the "free until level 60 trial"
and looking at everything honestly gives me anxiety.. I hope when I actually start playing things will clear up!
@@TairaEldritch you get used to everything in time, like the combatsystem, the lingo etc.
@@TairaEldritch You will be ok. I think the best thing about FFXIV is you don't need to understand everything. Just have fun, play how you want and take in new systems as you see fit.
i was playing wow for over 15 years, and i was still coming across things i had no idea about....!!!
@@TairaEldritch stick with the main story quest friend! You will not need to do all of the side quests to level. The only other quests aside from that you should focus on for now are your job quests, and any quests with a blue bubble with a + sign indicating its unlocking content! Hopefully that'll provide some direction for you and welcome aboard :)
I didn't know how to get mounts till i got to level 45, i was running everywhere.....that was yesterday.
bruuuuh, you were so close to getting a mount from the main story too XD
...brb, going dumping all my chest pieces in the glamour dresser which I totally knew existed.
I did literally everything backwards or wrong when I started about 1 1/2 months ago.
1. I leveled my first class Arcanist to lvl 29 before even realizing I was missing abilities and started doing my class quests.
2. Took me until my lvl 25 arc class quest to realize that I needed to do my main quest line stuff too. Yes I lvld to 29 without doing almost any main quests past lvl 12 I think.
3. Did about 20 hours worth of sidequests and levequests. Didn't realize until maybe the 4th or 5th time doing the same quests that leves are repeatable.
4. Changed classes often and had about 8 different classes going at the same time.
5. Took stuff off my HUD that helped me lvl sync so I couldnt do most fates I ran across for about 30 hours of gameplay.
6. Still to this point have very little idea of how to manage glamours.
7. Wing 99% of boss fights because even though I say its my 1st time most groups just dont explain things or already engaging the boss
8. Cant buy retainers, use the marketboard, get hunt drops, do any kind of pvp, cant trade, create a party, use any /tell say yell commands
9. Didnt understand how to extract materia and didn't know how to manage old gear or spirit bound items.
Because everything was done out of order I missed out on 40+ hours of getting fate xp and seals because I also took forever to join a grand company because that is a part of the main quest. I also unlocked most if not all of the duty finder stuff WAAAAYYYYY after I had already out lvld it. If it wasn't for syncing lvls I would completely missed out on tons of shit and not even knew about it.
The crafting and gathering portion was a lot for me, due to the fact that there were actually skills.
I agree. But that was also one of the things that hooked me early.
@@Melancholy_Scholar i just started focusing on crafting/gathering. Now I have tabs open in my browser, getting white scrips, collectables, etc, just after 3 weeks of really focusing on them.
Love the crafting... Feels like I'm actually crafting
I think the new Trial craft helps to practice with new abilities to learn what they do
It took my best friend to get me into these. It seemed so daunting.
I audibly gasped at "I spent most of ARR walking." You poor bastard
The one about the "blue chair/lamp" analogy hits home. Everytime I would take a break and come back to the game I would end up spending my tomes on the wrong gear (lower ilvl) because the vendor/currency system is so incredibly and seemingly unnecessarily convoluted.
After a couple expansions you get used to it. It is convoluted, but if there is an up side it's that they've kept the same basic pattern from expansion to expansion.
I just reached idyllshire, and clicked on the vendors out of curiosity. 3+ sets of gear with different ilevels but all bought with tomestones of poetics (maybe this is a leftover from when it was new, and they took different kinds of currency back then?), 50 different "reagents" and miscellaney that have no obvious use that all require different currencies whose origins aren't explained, mounts that apparently require running extreme trials 100 times each... This is not good design.
@@Corrodias It makes more sense when all that stuff is "current content" but when they just leave it as is afterwards for future expansions it makes things confusing for new players imo.
@@Corrodias Poetics is the universal one, current gear requires tomestones with unique names like Goetia or Phantasmagoria. When a new patch drops, they retire the newer tomestones and allow you to buy those items with Poetics.
8:44 I’m guilty of this. I started as a Thaumaturge and when I unlocked Fire 2 I stopped using Fire 1, and same with my other spells. Later when I looked for a guide on my rotation I learned they were meant for different purposes and had different potencies.
I absolutely LOST IT over “Such ambulation…” 🤣🤣🤣
Lmao me too.
Since FF14 was my first MMO, I’m actually kinda surprised that I can’t remember anything that really confused me about it.
Besides navigating Haukke Manor. I *STILL* can’t navigate it without someone leading the way, so I’m always scared to tank it lol
I play as tank but someone else (think a dps) lead the party and I got lost lmao. So that was an embarrassment.
There's a lot of new players recently, so there's going to be a lot of people getting lost right now. :D
Yeah, Haukke Manor was a complete mess for me. I got lost so many times and missed the teleport. Since I was the healer, the party had to slow down and basically handhold me to the end so they could finish without wiping at the final boss.
Haukke is fine for me... It's fucking Toto-Rak I can't navigate for shit... ever....
This. I picked up DRK (my first Tank) yesterday, and que'd for Haukke. I was completely lost. All I remembered was "go left at the start"
Had to let the Bard guide me after that
I was in Haukke Manor when I learned that cure 3 was a short ranged AoE, everyone was dying, was a fun time 😂
WAIT IT'S WHAT?
yeah it's costly and has a short range but there are still some fights where it is useful.
@@Aluc1d no. Cure 2 is 700, cure 3 is 550 potency. Plz.
Does no one ever actually read their spells?
AoE around the target, though, right?
I was near the end of the scions moving their base when I realized that a: those vouchers will teleport you to the scions base and b: there was a fast travel system. I was whole-ass taking boats and porters from place to place.
Its a good way to learn the areas but holy shit was it tedious
I never see the fucking vouchers until I cleaned my inventory after finishing ARR. I was so pissed cuz I always teleported to the nearest aetheryte and ran to scions base lmfao
Did that too...
there are vouchers that take you directly to waking sands? where
@@finalfantasy50 it has been a rewarding for a lot of story missions. I kept getting them but not really looking at them til I was cleaning up my chocobo saddlebag. Its called vesper bay aetheryte ticket. Its a white envelope w a red seal and if you're bag is sorted it'd be after food, with your other tickets/teleport vouchers
@@lishuss To be fair, in earlier days those didn't even exist, I remember playing before they were brought in, would have to teleport to Horizon and walk/ride from there.
3:20 AHHHHH!!!!! I'm so happy to have learned this but frustrated at all the time and inventory space I've wasted trying to look fabulous.
As odd as it sounds, the thing that confused me the most (I started October 2020) was the community.
It’s so much more nice and welcoming than any other community I’ve been in. I’m so used to other games where if you don’t go into the raid with 100% knowledge and wipe more than once then you’ll get kicked. It was such a stark contrast to anything I’ve ever experienced before.
You'll run into jerks on occasion like everywhere, but, yes, as a whole, the FF community is so nice. ^^ And if they're not? You can definitely say something about it. The devs don't play around with bullies.
This!
Same. Started a few months ago. Nicest community I’ve ever seen. It’s almost unbelievably nice.
The whole 'switching jobs and being naked' thing hits home. :') I would switch to a new job or a profession and end up naked and be like ".....OHSHIT I HOPE NO ONE SEES ME AHHHHH"
This is why I always carry my level 1 racial gear. They provide no protection, but they're the universal language for "I just switched to this job, what's going on. My bars have switched, the lodestone button came back AGAIN and this is the only thing I have on me not to be butt-naked."
I run off to hide in a corner or something (or up on top of a tower behind a wall in regions I can fly in) before I switch to a new job precisely because I'm butt naked XD
And after a while, you learn that... nobody even cares, or barely even notices... XD
Oh I shamelessly strip when changing jobs. City, out in the wild, anywhere. And since I dual play Sch and Smn it happens a lot.
I started playing almost exactly a month ago - luckily I came from LotRO with a lot of experience in other mmos too so that made things easier. That said the thing that caught me off guard the most was ID key in Prae.
Literally all game thus far key item drops in dungeons are shared and I had no idea where my raid went.
Thank god for teleport to combat
Exact same thing happened to me.
The most confusing thing for me (I finally downloaded the free trial woo!!) for me was the whole tank stance and rotation of abilities worked. I know what aggro is - but 5 commendations later, I think I'm in love with tanking!
When I got my free fantasia after finishing ARR, I didnt know about the aesthetician so I used that fantasia instead to change my hair style.
I didn't get a free fantasia :(
I didn't do the magitek registration in Prae my first time, I was a straggler and only noticed everyone getting onto the lift
Got to the magitek armor, UH???
Had to backtrack, figure out what to do, and then try to catch up to my party
I'm just glad no one yelled at me, since I was a healer o~o''
i made the same mistake, healer too ='D ... to be fair, it should be an different icon for individual interaction and group interaction. I tough if one used it all would have it =').
I did the same thing as a healer on my first run. I was stressing and my mate wouldn't stop laughing. No one cares though because everyone speedruns prae and the healer isn't needed for that section anyways. I mean I don't think you even need a healer to beat up Nero xD.
literally everyone I know made the same mistake with the one exception being a person that started in the ARR era. What can I say prae runs are fast and its a faceroll but no worries if someone gets left behind no pressure.
Did the same thing and just learned last week. I didn't know in my first Prae run that we don't fight the mobs and run right past, so when someone whacked a guy I started casting my AOE's and attracted EVERYBODY to me which meant I couldn't access the first teleport since I was in combat, and everybody left me. Well then of course I just had to sit and wait until they got to Nero for the game to catch me up.
So, the first time I got to that room everyone was so swarmed I couldn't see the key validation. I just figured they were orbit a door or something and I didn't need to do anything but wait. I then followed them to the elevator and had to double back to access the armor.
I run Prae just fine now and keep up with no issues!
SAME!!! This exact thing happened to me on my first run as WHM
I was so upset i had no mounts at low level, that i literally did shiva Ex synced (using the queue feature that took like an hour) and won Boreas the horse mount before I figured out how to unlock the chocobo mount with the GC...
Sad thing is I have so many account wide bonuses that I can start with like 5 mounts.
And guessing that pretty much everyone left that EX trial right at the start.
@@KumiChan2004 dont think so a roulette pushed his/her Q
I wanted to save gold when I first started so I refused to use aetheryte crystals during the first 15 levels of the game
for sure XIV, as with a lot MMOs, requires learning so much lingo that it becomes a language of its own.
Some things I used to be confused about:
-How chat worked. I would end up talking to people on the wrong channels.
-Moving stuff around in the UI (This is mainly because I am a ps4 player and dragging stuff around is a bit different)
-The looting system. Greed, need, pass.
-Procs and combos. Reading the tooltips made me realize i had been playing bard and white mage wrong.
-The mini cactpot. Used to think I just had to get the larger numbers and was confused when the payout didn't match up. Until i read the instructions.
-Main city layouts. You get accustomed to em, but i used to get very lost, especially in Limsa.
-Levemetes. Had no idea how to initiate them once I accepted one.
-Targeting. Again, this is more a console player problem, but had a hard time switching between friend and foe targets. PSA, up and down is friend, left and right is foes
-Praetorium. Had the same issue where I didn't know what to do, so when everyone disappeared in the magitek armor section, i was so confused since i didn't get a key.
Probably one big thing that I didn't know was that skills were locked to their individual jobs. I started my journey as a white mage, so when i switched over to bard, I thought I would be able to keep all the healing and magicks I got as a white mage, but nope. You start from 0 with totally different moves. I've been playing a year (finally reached shadowbringers) but there's still plenty to learn. Like leveling and dyeing your chocobo. Still have no idea how to do that lol.
I remember the game telling me about auto-attacks, but not understanding that auto-attacks happen regardless of if I'm actively using skills or not, so I would use an attack and wait for my guy to swing his sword before using another skill
You should do a video decoding all the in game lingo, it’s sad how long it took me to figure out what PotD, HoH and even MSQ meant 😂
@JoeysRattata Palace of the dead, heaven on high
I have taken to doing a google search for any new terms I come across.
I’ve never heard those before either
My "uh oh moment" was when I kept forgetting to equip job stones before missions, so now I was a conjurer instead of a white mage 🥲
Is there any reason at all to take it off?
@@sharatraj2736 actually there is! There is a unicorn mount you can get at lv 30 (i think) where you can only do the quest if youre a conjurer and not a white mage.
I've only been playing ffxiv for about a week so a lot of these I definitely relate to (especially that glamour one oof), and I'm just so grateful that I have friends who have been playing it much longer than me and thus take the time to teach me these things specifically sometimes. It's not my first MMO, and definitely not my first RPG, so the learning curve isn't MASSIVE but there's still stuff I don't get and because I'm ADHD and autistic it can be hard for my brain to process new info if it's not phrased certain ways. New games are intimidating but the more I'm learning about how shit works, the less scary other players are ^-^
I'll admit, as someone who has played other MMO's it took me a while to figure out that aoes hit based on time of cast completion rather than the effect going off. I spent a lot of the early days blaming lag, thinking I'd gotten out of the effect in time.
Eh. To be fair, the weird lag the game has is an issue. You can be outsode of an AoE when the cast timer finishes and still get hit if you were in it even 1 second before.
It's the most obnoxious shit that needs fixing.
@@Hydraclone Okay that explains a lot.
When I first started out crafting I treated it like every other MMO I had played prior: Got my blacksmith job, and just proceeded to craft just ingots as the way to grind and stock up on materials to create gear for my character at the same time, did not even craft the ingots through fast synthesis, because that gave me less exp... Took me a bit to discover you get a lot more exp when you craft things you never crafted before.
Cherry on top: I was a Lancer. I thought crafting Spears was a blacksmith job, but it turned out to be carpenters instead... oof...
one thing I learned that’s very useful is just that levequests are probably the fastest way to level up a crafting/gathering job
The "Features unlocked by quests" is my pitfall. I try my best to stay on top of it but I unlock my second retainer by chance, maybe 2 months after the time I should've unlocked it! As a gatherer I was extremely relieved.
I’m about to start FFXIV as my very first MMO after building my very first PC… I’m incredibly intimidated but your videos have made this a little bit easier
Yall are missing the most confusing thing! where does our money go when we teleport!?
dose Hydalin take it? is she just floating above a ever growing pile of gold? what do you need the gill for crystal mama!?
That is what I always assumed.
I interprete it as a tax payment used for maintaining the aetherytes, collected by some unseen person at the location you teleport to.
@@seralucii Yea that could be.
An NPC near Ul'Dah's Aetheryte actually explains this I think. Something about repaying a debt for reconstruction after bahamut messed everything up or something idr.
@@TormentedAngel8 Ive talked to Nenebaru now and the interest on that debt must be insane. screw the primals are the empire this is the true evil in this world.
Rise up comrades of Eorzia. The Aetheryte bourgeoisie must be stop. the only thing you have to loss are your chains!
I was so confused by how the gathering game changed at 50. It went from just go hit rocks to the collectable thing... steep learning curve on that one.
When I started to play SMN in 5.2 because at the time I wasn’t used to having my hot bars filled with abilities and learning that the SMN rotation was 2 minutes long
One of my secondary runs through WoD I was alliance C and was on chain duty for Cerberus. I thought I would be a super smart player and get ahead of the mechanic and stood over by the chain waiting for it to become interactable. Once the mechainc happened I ran the chain over to Fluffy and just stood there... like an idiot... thinking that I had to stand there with the chain to hold him in place. The chain disappeared from my hands with about 3 seconds left and I could feel the horrified gaze of my party mates as they frantically tried to sprint back to the wall to grab a new chain. We died horrible deaths and it was a great time!
Your channel is really helping me to feel ok with all the things you have to learn with FF14 for a begginer =)
6:02 LMAOOO I walked all the way from gridania to ul'dah at level 15 to unlock the glamour quest because i wanted to dye my potato sack gear rose pink
FFXIV is just a beautiful game. It can be a bit overwhelming but once you get the hang of it, it's gold.
Oh man I think most everyone forgets that id card in Prae lmao. I was so confused the first time around and was stuck in cutscenes for the rest of the dungeon
Your videos have helped me so much! Thank you~ I was so lost and your way of explaining thing has been easier for me to learn everything there is, I just started playing since last november and I still don't know a lot of thing, but I fell in love with the game!
Wonder why Zepla didnt heart this comment since this is exactly the kind you would. Maybe she is too busy coming up with bad jokes?
@@originalghoul3738 no one has an obligation to heart comments
@@gayassReal And she isnt going to fly you where she lives to reward you sticking up for her either?
@@originalghoul3738 i never said she was lmao
@@gayassReal lol
One time near the copperbell mines entry as a lvl 62 miner, I was gathering iron ore and there's was a low level player fighting the bombs. I was mining a node when I saw the aoe marker appear under me and ignored it since I was far higher level. It was annoying having to travel back there to continue mining.
That happened to me as well!! Same situation, but I was a 45 miner.
Not having chat bubbles, im still not sure why this doesnt exist, alot of the times when i see new people in the game, they dont even realise you're talking to them, or whos even talking
Yeah it's annoying, I still never know when someone is talking to me or who is talking
I have different sound notifications (accessed through Char Config/Chat/Notifications) on various chats, macros, especially important in parties and raids when instructions are given in the middle of the fight. My noob self healing first raid, boss at 2%, tank and 1 dps screaming for "healer LB 3!!!" in party chat, and me busy running around and dying....you can put a sound notification on emotes directed at you too, especially important in towns where emotes are EVERYWHERE.... lol
Yes at least make it an option.
Fyi, there's a third party launcher called xivquicklauncher that has a plugin that does that. Someone should go bug the dev team to make it official.
For real, as a long time mmo player, that's pretty much the worst thing about ff xiv imo.
Didn't know about the "once the shape is gone, it's safe" thing until this week. I am more than half way through Stormblood.
I learned that today. I've completed all the expansions and am in post-Shadowbringers content. 😉
I too learned this today 😳
I didn't know that until I read this comment
I just started playing 2 months ago and I got confused why people were yelling at me for not DPSing as a WHM I was like because I am the healer we don't DPS we heal. Didn't realize I was wrong until mid 40's ..... oops my bad.
Now become a true WHM and people will be shouting stop DPS and heal ffs
I relate to too many of those lmao! It's fortunate I ended up with so many friendly allies in dungeons who basically taught me everything (tank stance, cure II, LB...). The community is so supportive! Of course, it helps to read guides but when you start, there are so many unknowns that you don't know where to look. That's also why I love that game though :)
I can relate to the first comment so much. City of Heroes was my first 3D MMO where I didn't know jumping was a thing. I had a quest to go inside a warehouse but couldn't find a ramp or stairs up this small little curb. I actually ended up sending in a ticket asking how tf I get up there and they replied, "the default keybind for jump is spacebar" 😂
Started playing a month ago, am halfway through the post-Stormblood msq and feel like I know just enough to get in trouble but not actually do things optimally for serious like the crafting /gathering systems, and job but BRD, healing above level 20, the eleven million extra logs /tasks /unlocks that you keep stumbling on. I feel like it takes forever to get my quest log to a manageable place after each major msq chain and I'm always 5-7 levels ahead of where the quests are (75 and still have about 15 msq before I hit Shadowbringers). You're guides have been really helpful, it's just hard when you want to know how to do ALL THE THINGS. RIGHT. NOW.
Before playing, just creating an account and buying/downloading the game was already confusing for my friends. Dif platforms? Steam? Non-steam? Localization?
The "Strength making bow stronger" thing WAS a thing in some past MMOs, where stuff like dexterity and agility were entirely for hit rate and crit.
most confusing so far: finding out midway through Stormblood that I have to go back to do some random ARR thing (ended up being the Crystal Tower storyline) because a character in it shows up in Shadowbringers? jarring as hell when I didn't even know it was a thing lol
It's impossible to understand SHB without playing through the Crystal Tower series. Nowadays you can't even finish ARR without doing it, but if you had finished ARR before SHB release, they ask you just after Stormblood
@@MiloKuroshiro oh, for sure. and I get it NOW, even though I haven't caught up to ShB yet. but in the moment, it made for a weird obligation?? that feels less like planting for an eventual payoff and more like "oh shit you're missing some key lore because some pages were stuck together, hang on, go back a few chapters". I'll live with that, but it's jarring, and that's unfortunate
they have changed that now. you can't go on to heavensward without beating the Crystal tower.
@@Camsteak I'm aware. and I'm glad that new players will have a more coherent sequence of events than I did. I just hope that nothing else like this comes up because this was, again, confusing to deal with even after plunking away at this game for a year and a half
There is nothing else like that in the game, from what I understand, you just were one of the unlucky ones not up to ShB but after ARR when the change came in.
I was lucky to have friends already playing to help me out with things, but one thing that confused the Hades out of me was not understanding that I needed to keep my starter clothes for if/when I would start crafting or gathering, or a new job of any kind. I spent gil needlessly on gear I thought I could use and was perplexed when I couldn't equip it. I never did find a video or article geared towards newbies that mentions that aspect of things.
I just got my first DoL job to 60 and I've been trying to figure out the collectible and scrip system for days. It feels like week 1 of playing all over again.
2:40 on the map subject, what is even topography on FFXIV? xD I think the devs/designers never heard about it, like what is up and down, do you need to get into a cave, is it a wall or not? it sucks, you get used on how much it sucks tho
As probably been mentioned before, FFXIV doesn't really do hand-holding in player progression, we have to figure them out as we go along. I have the same problem with maps, until i realized that there is an indicator of either its up or down the said maps. in the middle of the targeted area there is a "^" or "v" ... with "^" being up, and "v" being down...
I hope this'll help.
Started playing 2 months ago. I thought LB stood for the role action "Low Blow" and I was thinking doing good mechanics when pressing it
I made it all the way to Shadowbringers having no idea what the hell LB was. It's not explained at any point, you're just expected to know. There's a big fight toward the end where, as a tank, you MUST use it or your entire party WILL die. I was the main tank. I had no idea it even existed. People are telling me to LB and I'm like "I'm on keyboard!" Eventually someone explained it and we were able to finish the fight, but God I felt like a moron.
@@whatareyoudoingyouidiot342 Ooooh yeah, I remember this part, hopefully I read a guide before the fight. But yeah, as a tank, this is not a big deal if you don't know what this mechanic is (unless for this fight), but as a dps or healer it's pretty important depending on the situation, and we're not all prepared to use it.
@@whatareyoudoingyouidiot342 I'm a gladiator right now. Please tell me what LB means?
@@nicholasoutland2396 it means Limit Break. It won't really come into play until much later in the game for you, and as a tank, you really won't need to use it very often.
@Sean Kaiserschmidt It's a mechanic that appears in later dungeons. If you set it off, something BIG happens depending on what role you play. If you're a DPS, it unleashes an attack that does massive damage. If you're a tank, it gives everyone a huge buff to defense. If you're a healer, I believe it auto-resses and heals everyone.
I've been playing mmo's for 12 years, first wow and 3 days ago ff14 either way i still keep bumping into stuff or falling into places i cant get out 😂
The King has fallen. WoW is no longer the King. FFXIV is the new king and your videos are PURE GOLD for us, wow refugees. Keep it up. And thanks!!!
When I first started I didn't know the big aetheryets in cities could be used to travel around, I thought it was only the small ones.
New player here and that has been confusing me as well. How do you travel to a large aetheryte that you have unlocked if it is not set as your bind point and is in a city in a zone outside of the main city area? If I try to do this from a small aetheryte within the city area, there is no option (small aetherytes can only be used within the city area). If I try to do this from the large aetheryte in the main city where I have set as my bind point, there still is no option to travel to outlying cities. The only option drops you off at the border to that zone. I guess they don't want you to be able to fast travel long distances (only short distances within the city area)?
Edit: Doh! I finally realized that you can only travel for free within the main city area. I was thinking it was like ESO, where you have to pay to teleport to a waypoint if you are in the middle of nowhere, but it's free to teleport if you use the waypoint. I haven't been using the pay to teleport feature since the several hundred gil is kind of steep for a new player - I'm sure that cost means nothing later.
I started 14 last week and because I had time off work I was able to make it to level 40.
This is my first ever MMO and I'm 35 so as you can imagine I was confused as hell by everything.
My lowest point so far has been going into a dungeon, beating a miniboss and then having everybody immediately port out to go face the main boss, this was in the haunted mansion place. Everybody just disappeared! I was left standing there like 'wth did everyone just quit?' then I realised they were fighting elsewhere so I tried to run back to the beginning. Of course I was almost immediately killed and I just had to watch in the chat as people were like 'how did he die', 'where did he go?'.
I had no idea that you could port to the beginning of the dungeon, and if I'm completely honest I'm still uncertain as to how it's done, and I don't want to press 'return' in case that take me back to Gridania xD
Oh, I also walked off the platform when fighting Ifrit and had to watch the rest of the battle play out without me. I didn't know you could fall off!
I'm still in the button mashing phase of things, but I think I'm getting there.
So .. where did they go ? And how do you port back ?
@@PrimeReal you use the port home function and it takes you back to first chamber :D
I had a similar problem in the mansion yesterday. After beating the miniboss we had forgotten something. The only one of us who did the whole thing before went to get it. The others and me just went to random places because we had no idea what and where we are looking for. Then all besides me teleported back. I got lost and let the whole group wait 5 minutes for the tank. They even wrote how I could teleport to the entrance. But I was confused and english isnt my first language so I wasnt sure if they really meant the button I thought :´(
The being naked part in Ul'dah got me. When I was leveling my low level tanks (pre level 50) I did not realize that the "auto equip" button was a trap. I had sooo many healers confused why I was taking soo much damage until one pointed it out to me. I then spent time re-equipping gear after a boss to the proper high defense gear. No longer did I have any problems with taking a lot of damage.
When I started my first crafter, I equipped the tool and I realized I was naked! I was so embarrassed I ran & hid frantically trying to figure out how to put my clothes back on lol
Some of the things I struggled with early on were just figuring out the basics and where all the various options were located within the various system menus. I'd never played a game where right clicking was the interaction button instead of left clicking and in other MMOs I'd played you could move by clicking on the area you wanted to move to, not so in FF14! I also played the game for about 4 hours or so before asking someone if it was possible to change your keyboard mapping because I was expecting that option to be under the System Configuration window rather than it's own separate menu lol. Truth be told even over 3 months later there's probably still features hidden within all the various menu options that I don't even know exist!
The only really confusing thing for me was when they started introducing differently coloured AOEs, specifically the one with Titan. That thing looks so much like the ground on which you're staying that most of the time I didn't even notice them being there.
I got punted off the platform many, many times because of this.
It’s even worse on grill/gridiron floors
"Crafting is overwhelming" for sure I felt myself. I've been playing FF on-and-off since mid-HW, but didn't get properly into crafting until The Firmament came around.
Also which starter class is which role, right off the bat. The prompts you get when picking your class isn't very explicit in saying "Gladiator/Marauder is a tank" or "These classes are Damage Dealers."
oh my god the currencies 😂got to current content very recently and was So Confused as to what to do with all these different kinds of tomestones, why i get coins from some raids, what all these damn crystals and clusters do. thank god for google
I was playing the game with my SO back in Stormblood. She casually mentioned that she's going to take a look at what the retainers had brought her from the market. "Ooh, that's a lot of gil!", I was confused as I never paid any real attention to my wallet when I sold something. And I sold decent amount of stuff, a lot more than her, but she was still somehow making more money than I was. After I ran to the summoning bell, I realized I now have enough gil for several small houses.
The Retainer was a big change for me. I'm used to having a Bank in WoW, and didn't realize I would need to unlock, create, and hire a Retainer to hold my things.
I miss the simplicity of wows bank and trade hall. The trade board and retainers aren't nearly as good
That sounds a bit counter-intuitive and overly complicated to me. It's not good game design, it's bad game design that you adapt to.
When I first started playing back about halfway through HW, I chose Arcanist as my starting class. Shortly after I was level 10 I didn't like how the gear looked so I took it all off and ran around naked, using my carbuncle to attack things. Took me a bit to figure out why I couldn't get past the first level 15 MSQ fight quest.
Additionally, once I unlocked SMN, one of the job battle quests was frustrating me so I left it, and gave it no thought til I was in a 60 dungeon and someone FINALLY asked why I wasn't using 😅😆
From "What the hell is a lb and why is everyone yelling at me to use it T - T"
-to "What do you mean we all share the same lb bar??"
Thems were the days.
Regarding the two different maps: The more detailed one (to the left) is the general map you bring up via the map key/button. The other one is a quest specific map you bring up by clicking on a quest objective, showing only the quest location with no additional info on surrounding points of interest.
3:38 i honestly was surprised playing FFXIV that elemental damage isn't something to worry about playing my Thaum/BLM. I mean it only took a quick test on each mob to confirm it wasn't, but i was surprised as not only do a ton of MMO's take elemental damage and mob types into account but I too thought this was a huge mechanic of Final Fantasy games, odd that they removed it for the MMO.
I was around level 40 when people started nicely asking, "do you know how to switch to fire?" I'd finally figured out that elemental aspect didn't matter for the type of opponent... so I stopped using fire altogether because it ate up too much MP...
In the beginning I alway wondered why I was suddenly in underwear when I switched classes. I also didn‘t know I could save the outfits of the classes for a long time.
Had something similar happen to my friend I was trying to get in the game, he played for like 2 weeks and grinded out the msq to level 47 I think, I was really busy with irl things unexpectedly so I really only played with him the first couple days but eventually he talked to me and said the msq just wasnt fun enough for him which I didn't hold against him since he gave it a good shot and grinded like crazy, one day I randomly looked at his search info and noticed he was a lv47 gladiator... I felt like shit about not telling him that he needs to do his class quests as he levels his class, I told him about what he did wrong eventually and now he's even more turned off from the game :c
I just thought it was obvious since the game actually tells you when you have a new class quest to do but I definitely wish I kept a closer eye on his progress and helped him more. Now about a year later he wants to play a mmo again but he wants to play wow instead since ffxiv just didn't workout for him last time. So big time feelsbadman.
you should tell him to give it another try, i've tried a ton of mmo and FF14 is one of the most fair game i've tried, no in your face cash shop, real good story quest. And the most important : helping and kind community.
Playing WOW wld get your friend to quit MMO for good.
@@Mawww_MMD yeah I definitely have been trying to convince him to play again but he just has 0 interest currently, so I'm hoping when he tries wow maybe he'll be more willing to try ffxiv if wow doesn't work out for him
Poor guy, he must have got called out on in a party that is mostly the case. A tank cannot keep hate, not know dungeon, sometimes people would say things to you. The easiest starting class is dps, you just hit stuff lol
After spending 4 hours looking around zones trying to find the Aether Currents I had missed, getting frustrated cause I couldn't find them, I then found out I had a compass in my bag that once clicked on tells you where the nearest one was!! It took me 30 mins to get the rest afterwards. I did laugh out loud when I realised and also felt a bit stupid.
Gathering/crafting was confusing at first, but it's really fun now.
Also, I'm stealing "sad-iator"
When I first started a month ago, I didn’t understand how hotbars and class sets worked until the middle of Stormblood, so I was manually changing things.
Still have the pain I felt when I found out recommended gear was right next to the glamour plate button, let alone the embarrassment of the rest.
The one confused me was the Market Board. I can buy stuff but there's no option to sell stuff. Then I cannot find the bank to store my stuff.
In case you are new - Once you get a retainer you can sell on the market. I got access at about lvl 20 of main quest... i think. not sure (i'm lvl 30 now and it was recent but I did ignore it for a little bit). but google how to get a retainer and that'll open it for you
@@MsAussieSheila Thanks. I figured it out soon after and also that was 720 days ago.
@@EnzoVinZ LOL. Not new then.
Having everything on one character. I played City of Heroes before FFXIV. I had over 100 characters. Really. Didn't play all of them but I couldn't resist rolling up all of those concepts. I rolled 4 or 5 characters in ARR beta, then had a big sad when I realized I wouldn't play all of them. Nowadays I let myself have one alt as a little treat.
Not gonna lie I'm here for the way she says "hey buns" 10/10 wholesome vibes
omg that first comment from Princess Ferocious? That was me, too, so I feel your pain! LOL xD
LMAO the lb one hit my heart , was totally me in the beginning 😂
Still do NOT know when one would use this. Everyone keeps talking about it, but I've yet to get an understandable explanation, that doesn't have even more jargon trying to explain it. Reminds me of my sister who is in some kind of weird religious sect and every other word she spouts is ancient hebrew (or something) so all I hear when she talks is "Hi how are you Mxqxhwhsh and bless you, I've been doing Yxwshilloppp and going here or there"...riiiight sis..Okay. good for you. Whatever. So, my point is...limit break is used when?
@@Kayenne54 it depends on who you are and the timing usually in dungeons the melee gets priority in using it on bosses range LB is an aoe not single target like melees Tanks and healer Lbs dont afflict dmg
@@Kayenne54 yeah what he said , it’s weird cause either you can use it like on a high ranged dps or close dmg character. Say the boss is at around 5-7 percent. And LB will just one shot when it’s maxed out! So sometimes you’ll see a ranged use it begginging of a boss or say a SAM using it end of the boss to just quick finish it!
@@Kayenne54 healers LB just revives whole party which is very useful in situationals.And I forget what tanks does LOL basically dmg Will usually pop LB before a boss or right at the end :D
When I started playing I had no idea what an MMO was and had never played anything like it. I mostly played Mario and Zelda type stuff and some other single player games. So I was utterly baffled by all these terms like DoTs, tanks, DPS. I ended up Googling them so I'd know what they all meant. I think LB was probably the thing that confused me the most. It took me the longest time to fully understand that one. But the complexity of the systems in game compared to a Zelda type game were really hard for me to adjust to.
I actually had a pretty smooth new player experience. The novice network, my random party members, and IRL friends all did a good job of explaining the trickier systems.
That is, until I reached the Gold Saucer and found the Mahjong table. I was completely lost, and nobody I talked to could help me. Got stuck in a "beginner" game for what felt like hours.
Ditto. After I got out of the game I found the rules, which made a lot of things clearer but I still don't know how to exit an AI game.
Moreso on the crafters, you only need to sort through the abilities once, all the crafters share the same abilities just flavored differently. You can sort them on your bar and then use the macro "/hotbar copy [orginatingclass] [hotbarnumber] [targetclass] [hotbarnumber]" replacing the brackets with the jobs and hotbars without the quotations.
IE:
/hotbar copy current 1 BSM 1
/hotbar copy current 1 ARM 1
/hotbar copy current 1 GSM 1
/hotbar copy current 1 CUL 1
/hotbar copy current 1 LTW 1
/hotbar copy current 1 WVR 1
/hotbar copy current 1 ALC 1
/hotbar copy current 2 BSM 2
/hotbar copy current 2 ARM 2
/hotbar copy current 2 GSM 2
/hotbar copy current 2 CUL 2
/hotbar copy current 2 LTW 2
/hotbar copy current 2 WVR 2
/hotbar copy current 2 ALC 2
This will copy the current hotbar setup to the other crafting jobs. It's extremely useful if you want to keep all the hotbars consistent and make crafting on different job easier as it will be the same location for the skills.
**Me playing FFXIV for over a year and an Astrologian for half a year**
_HoTs are an aggro generator_
* _!VISIBLE CONFUSION!_ *
**Me thinking of all the times where a tank sweated to get the aggro back because of me**
Haha honestly don't worry about it. The enmity multiplier on tank stance is _huge_ there's no sweat whatsoever getting aggro back. When I tank I just make it a point to run directly in front of my healer, so even if enemies try to make for them, they'll get caught up in my AOE and I'll tank aggro right back. Sometimes I miss a couple, but so long as the healer comes and stands close by when I'm done pulling, the strays will naturally get caught up in my AOEs. Just don't run away like a headless chicken when strays glom onto you. Hit sprint and glue yourself to the tank's side and things will be fine. I never mind it when healers pre-pull regen on me.
If you've been playing for a year, they weren't sweating. In fact, they might not have even noticed. Tanks now generate so much aggro it's not even relevant what the other party members do.
It used to be Healers and DPS had skills for reducing their own aggro generation so they wouldn't steal mobs during burst windows, but now all of that is gone and tanks simply quickly cap out the maximum amount of aggro that the servers are able to represent. It actually causes some issues with tank swaps.
@@Poldovico i guess tanks dont shirk or provoke
@@quirinkanada2111 They certainly don't shirk in dungeons, and there's no reason to provoke beyond initially pulling a new enemy.
@@Poldovico But you said there were issues with tank swapping which there shouldnt be any bc of provoke and shirk. One tank per dungeon so no tank swap required.
I can relate to the "ending up naked" bit. I did the same a few years back when I tried out the game. I had read that the jobs needed abilities from different classes and I wanted to be a Bard. I read that Bard required one class at lvl 15 and another at lvl 30 to unlock. So I leveled one class to lvl 15 and then I re-rolled the other required class and none of my gear fitted anymore. I was naked. I had gotten all my gear from quest rewards and those quests were gone now so I couldn't repeat them. I was on a trail account and couldn't figure out how to gear up again, I left and haven't touch the game since.